Seventh Cross by Seghers Anna, First Edition (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Old sticker stain to front cover.

PAPERBACK, cover price $17.95, very good with only slightest wear to edges. previous owner's name and address label inside front cover. SEGHERS, ANNA. The seventh cross. Translated from the German by James A. Galston ; foreword by Kurt Vonnegut ; afterword by Dorothy Rosenberg. Boston: David R. Godine, 2004, stated First Printing of this edition, xi, 441pp., . A Verba Mundi book. - Written in 1939 and first published in 1942 in German. 9781567922530 ISBN 1567922538.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid boards, gilt lettering to spine strip, previous owner's small sticker to front paste down, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (Sept.) 1942. Red cloth, very good 338 pages, First English language edition, preceding the first German language edition of the same year. The famous escape story was made into a movie only 2 years later by F. Zinnemann. No ink marks of any kind. No dust jacket. the story of George Heisler's escape from Westhofen prison camp Basis for the film, "The Seventh Cross" (1957) starring Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Agnes Moorehead. directed by Fred Zinnemann. Seghers, who was from a German Jewish family, lost her mother in a concentration camp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Red cloth covers with dulled gilt lettering to spine; front cover has several white paper lines caused by adherence of back of dustjacket to cover; dustjacket is now missing; lower right front corner is bumped and rubbed/frayed; rear cover has bumped corners at upper left and lower left and spine panel is darkened; White Endpapers have tanned; free front endpaper has been torn out; rear endpapers show foxing along gutters; book interior is clean and tight; top book edge is stained grey by publisher and is faded; 12mo; 338 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; 1st printing, September, 1942 . Book club.Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1942. hardcover in dustjacket. Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist, Heisler, survives, not by cunning or superior skill, but through the complicity of a web of common citizens unwilling to bow to the Gestapo and forced to make decisions that will determine the character of their future lives. The Seventh Cross was one of the very few depictions of Nazi concentration camps, in either literature or the cinema, during World War II."some jacket wear, tear, browning, book is very good, bookplate, otherwise clean and tight".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 338 pages. 8vo. The front end paper has been removed. Published early in thr Second World War it was called " .the greatest novel reflecting the life inside Germany today.the greatest book ever written about the advent of Fascism in any country." Photos provided upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Translated by James A. Galston. A bit of fading to the cloth at the spine ends, else near fine in a fair only dust jacket with the bottom half of the spine separated, loss to the spine ends, and the front panel detached from both the rear panel and the front flap, with edgewear and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. About Very good in good dustwrapper. Hinge cracked. Pages very light brown on edges. Corners slightly bent. Slight spine lean. Dustwrapper worn and torn. Dustwrapper faded on edges and spine. Dustwrapper flap detattched but inside book. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Hardbound. Condition: VG without DJ. 1st edition. Owner's stamp on front end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good red boards in a very good dust jacket, unclipped, in a mylar cover. Full number line. A German classic novel from 1942 that powerfully documents the insidious rise of a fascist regime.

1942 FIRST EDITION IN VERY GOOD 338 PAGE HARDCOVER(ONLY NAMES INSIDE) THAT IS MUCH BETTER THAN ANY PAPERBACK FOR SURE!!.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red w/gilt lettering. Spine slightly darkened, some scuffing to covers. Discoloring inside front cover, ffep, from binders glue, otherwise clean and tight, no marks. Top edge dyed grey. Translated from the German by James A. Galston.

Originalleinen. 22cm. Condition: Sehr gut. First American Edition. 338 Seiten. SEHR gutes Exemplar der ERSTAUSGABE. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. This is a great WWII story about a man's escape from Westhofen prison camp and the suspensful man-hunt by the Nazis. It consists of 338 pages which are all clean and free of marks or signatures. There is foxing on the inside of both covers. The binding is very tight. The bright red cloth cover is stamped in gold on the spine and appears like new. The back of the cover has been wet on the bottom edge and has faded onto the DJ. The brown DJ has the title and author printed in white with black barb wire around the circumference. There is a "For Victory Buy U.S. Defense Bonds and Stamps" stamp on the inside fly of the DJ. The DJ shows wear along the edges, especially along the bottom.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2019 Virago Modern Classics paperback 1st edition thus. Very good+ clean tight copy.

Boston, Little, Brown u.Co.1942, rot.Or.-Ln.m.rotbraunem Schutzumschl.(II,) 338 S.1.Ausg., noch vor der 1.dt.Ausg.erschienen (hier ohne Vermerk "First edition").Rost/Weber 19; Melzwig 657,67.Aus dem Manuskript übers.v.J.A.Galston.Umschlagränder etw.bestoßen u.mit kl.Fehlstellen, Schnitt gering fleckig.

338 S. OLwd. Erste engl. Ausgabe. - Zeitgleich mit der ersten deutschen Ausgabe 1942 bei El libro libre. - Fl. Vorsatz beschnitten.

First edition. First edition. 468, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's boards with orange and brown lettering. Main text in German; front flap text in English, rear flap in Spanish. Very Good+ with toning to boards, creasing vertically along spine, light edge wear, poet William Matchett's copy with his name on front free endpaper next to bookstore ticket. In a Very Good example of the very rare pictorial dust jacket, missing a triangular chip at the head, light dampstaining to spine panel, wear along edges. One of the earliest depictions of concentration camps in fiction, written under a pen name by a German Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to Mexico. This unusual German-language publication there is the book's first appearance worldwide. It would be an immediate hit upon translation to English the following year, and inspire a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy. The book would go on to be regarded as one of the major works of 20th century literature in German.